The Delta independent., 1887-02-08
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES.

been declared sane.
Beecher says the Knights of Labor
are an abomination.
About $4,000 men are now involved
iu the New York strike.
Mr.. Parnell is reported to be suffer-
ing from Brights disease.
A fire at Hastings, Nebraska, de-
stroyed business block valued at 800, 900.
The season thus far is said to have
been very favorable for cattle in Wyoming.
The Chicago printers have made a
demand for an increase in the scale of
wages.
The Ohio river and its tributaries are
rising rapidly and disastrous floods are
feared.
1t is estimated that the public debt
was reduced 8, ,OOO, 900 during the month of
January.
The hotel clerk who stole Fanny
Davenport's jewels has been arrested in
Kansas City.
The Kansas Senate has passed the
bill granting municipal suffrage to women
by vote of 25 to 1S.
The State Industrial School at Ro-
chester, New York, burned the other day,
| involving loss of 100000.
The Interstate Commerce bill has
been signed by the President and will go in
to effect on the 5th of next April.
The Texas Legislature has elected
Hon. John II. Reagan to the United States
Senate to succeed General Maxey.
The striking eight-handlers in Jer-
sey City are showing disposition to do
lily injury to the non-union men.
A great revival is in progress in DR..
Talmage's church in Brooklyn. So far two
thousand persons have been converted.
John D. Leslie. discount clerk of the
First National Bank of Baltimore, is miss
ing and so is $4,000 belonging to the bank.
The storekeepers at South Amboy,
| New Jersey, are threatened with boycott
if they sell goods to the Pennsylvania Rail-
road.
Two of the St. Louis express robbers
have signed aftidavits exculpating Fother-
ingham, the agent, from any participation
in the crime.
RAYMOND Belmont, a son of August
Belmont of New York shot himself through
the head in the shooting-gallery of his
fathers house. - s.'-'
1t is expected that Mr.. Lothrop, the
United States Minister to Russia, will re-
| sign on account of i'll health and the scveri-
ty of the climate.
Reports from Montana are to the eff
feet that on account of the extreme cold and
the snow-covered ground, the cattle are dy-
ing by thousands.
In the battles between the Italians
and the Abysinnians, the former lost all
their guns. Out of $50 Italians not more
than fifty escaped alive.
The President of the Old Dominion
Line of steamers offers $4,000 reward for
the man who exploded the dynamite in the
cabin of the Guyandotte-
The Pennsylvania Senate has passed
bill providing for the submission of a
prohibition amendment to the State Consti-
tuition to a vote of the people.
Spies and Miss Van Zandt were mar
red by proxy in Chicago last Saturday.
Spies not being able to attend the ceremony
was represented by his brother
The story that was sent from Nebras-
ka to the effect that Brigham Young lis
alive and hiding there, is vigorously denied
| by the Mormons in Washington.
The Emperor of Germany has an
nounced that q, 900 men of the reserves are
to be called out Immediately and drilled in
the use of the new repeating rifle.
IT is asserted that the War Depart
ment at Washington has recently taken
measures to ascertain infinitely and secretly
the military strength in every State.
In the Lower House of the Texas
Legislature Joint resolution proposing a
prohibition amendment to the Constitution
Eighty-five per cent. of the employees
of the Signal Office in Washington have pc
titioned Congress to transfer the Weather
Bureau to the new Department of Agricul-
| ture.
Secretary Manning and Treasurer
Jordan are soon to resign to accept the
presidency and vice-presidency, respective
ly, of the Western National Bank of New
York City.
Fears are entertained in Western
Montana of heavy cattle losses on account
of the snow and severe weather. The situ-
alton in Eastern Montana and Western Da-
kota is better.
The indications are unfavorable to
the repeal of the pre-emption and timber
culture laws at this session of Congress, be-
cause the confercs from the two Houses
cannot agree.
Cornish. who shot Miss Lulu Green,
of Sharpsburg, Kentucky, and tried to kill
her mother and sister, because the girl
would not marry him, was taken from the
Jail at Springfield, the county seat, and
hanged by mob.
The smelters in every steel cruci-
Bile works in Pittsburg have de-
manded Is per cent. increase in
wages, to take effect February Is,